Volume, Orderflow, Cumulative Volume Delta, Footprint, Volume Profile, Price Action Strategy

A scalping strategy by Fabio Valentini that combines Volume, Orderflow, Cumulative Volume Delta, Footprint, Volume Profile, and Price Action to identify high-pr

Published · Updated · Methodology: Technical Indicators

Part of: Volume Analysis

  • Methodology: Technical Indicators
  • Content type: strategy
  • Timeframes: Large timeframes, Small timeframes
  • Markets: Futures, NASDAQ

Indicators used

  • Price Action
  • Volume
  • Orderflow
  • Cumulative Volume Delta
  • Footprint
  • Volume Profile

Source video

Decoded from: Así Opera El Mejor Scalper Del Planeta | Fabio Valentini by Alex Ruiz — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:30 - Introduction to Fabio Valentini and his results
  • 1:25 - Core strategy bases: Futures, NASDAQ, New York session
  • 2:00 - Main question: Who is winning? Buyers or Sellers?
  • 2:15 - Tools: Price Action, Volume, Orderflow, Cumulative Volume Delta
  • 2:45 - Key tools: Footprint and Volume Profile
  • 4:50 - Strategy approach: Narrative/Bias, marking levels
  • 5:40 - Setup types: False breakouts, Reversion, Trend following
  • 6:00 - Most profitable setup: Trend following with acceleration and volume confirmation
  • 6:45 - Risk Management: Fragmented entries, dynamic stop loss, partial take profits
  • 9:00 - Daily loss/gain limits
  • 9:15 - Position sizing based on setup quality
  • 10:00 - Risk scaling with daily profits
  • 10:45 - General trading rules

Strategy overview

Volume analysis reads the transaction record rather than the price line, and the six labels stacked into this entry's name — Volume, Orderflow, Cumulative Volume Delta, Footprint, Volume Profile, Price Action — are better understood as one question asked at six resolutions than as six separate methods. The video states the question outright at 2:00: who is winning, buyers or sellers? Aggregate volume answers it as a single number per bar; cumulative volume delta signs that number and carries the running total; footprint opens the bar and splits the transactions by price level inside it; volume profile redistributes the same record across price instead of time. Nothing new enters the chart between one tool and the next — only the grain at which the same exchange record is read.

The framing matters as much as the toolkit: this is a portrait, not a lesson. Alex Ruiz's Spanish-language video profiles another trader, Fabio Valentini, and the superlative in its title — "Así Opera El Mejor Scalper Del Planeta" — ranks a person, not a method. The recorded arc opens with an introduction to Valentini and his results, then fixes the scope conditions at 1:25 — futures, the NASDAQ, the New York session — before a single tool is named. That ordering is informative in itself: the instrument and the session come first, and the order-flow stack is presented as what follows from that choice rather than as a portable technique.

Where the chapter markers end is the honest limit of this page. After the resolution ladder, the last recorded step at 4:50 is narrative and bias — marking levels — which hands the fine-grained readings back to a discretionary judgment about context. No rules, entry conditions or parameters are recorded for this entry and the markers stop just short of five minutes, so what this page can offer is the concept and the structure the video itself follows, not a rule set to trade.

Topics

trading strategy · pine script · tradingview strategy · scalping strategy · volume profile strategy · order flow trading · cumulative volume delta · footprint chart · price action strategy · futures trading strategy · nasdaq strategy · technical indicators · swing trading

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between volume, cumulative volume delta, and footprint?

They are the same transaction record read at different resolutions. Volume is the total traded in a bar; cumulative volume delta separates buyer-initiated from seller-initiated trades and accumulates the running difference; footprint opens the bar and shows how that traded volume was distributed across each price level inside it.

What does "who is winning, buyers or sellers" mean in order flow?

It refers to which side is transacting aggressively — lifting offers or hitting bids — rather than which side is merely posting orders. Order-flow tools attempt to make that imbalance visible, which is the question this video puts at the centre of the toolkit at 2:00.

Why is order flow analysis usually applied to futures markets?

Because a centralized futures exchange reports actual contracts traded through a single venue, so volume and delta are measured rather than estimated. That is the scope this video sets from the start: futures, the NASDAQ, and the New York session.

Does this page include the trader's specific entry rules?

No. This entry has no extracted rules or parameters recorded, and the video is structured as a profile of another trader's approach rather than a rule-by-rule walkthrough. Strategy Decoder documents what each source video actually specifies, so pages without a recoverable rule set are presented as concept and context instead.

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